Horus

Horus, the falcon-headed Egyptian god, is on the left in this picture, receiving gifts from a newly dead Egyptian.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the falcon-headed sky god whose eyes were the Sun and the Moon; adult son of the principal goddess Isis or Hathor (otherwise his wife), whom she magically conceived by the dead Osiris, ruler of the underworld. He injured his eye while avenging his father's murder by Set, the good eye being the Sun and the bad representing the Moon. Every pharaoh was believed to be his incarnation, becoming Osiris on death and ruling the Underworld. The next pharaoh was then thought to be a new incarnation of Horus.

As a deity related to the sun, Horus intermingled with the sun god Ra with whom he was identified as Ra-Harakhty, and who superseded him to some extent as supreme god in the Old Kingdom (from around 2685 BC to 2180 BC). The Horus of Edfu, Upper Egypt, was represented by the sun's disk with falcon's wings.

Horus the Child or Harpocrates was regarded as a separate deity, identified with the sun god who was reborn every morning.